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IBM Lotus® Domino® Web Access is the flexible, high-function Web browser-based client option for use with IBM Lotus Domino server.
Lotus Domino Web Access leverages the latest Web browser technologies – on Microsoft® Windows® and on LinuxTM – to access reliable, security-rich messaging and collaborative capabilities designed to help companies increase employee productivity, facilitate decision making, and improve overall business responsiveness.
Lotus Domino Web Access can be deployed specifically for e-mail, calendar and scheduling, personal information management (PIM) functions, team productivity tools and integrated presence awareness and instant messaging (IBM Lotus Domino Web Access for Messaging). Or it can be deployed as a Web-based platform to access and run collaborative applications in addition to using messaging capabilities (IBM Lotus Domino Web Access for Collaboration).
New feature enhancements
Higher performance
The Lotus Domino Web Access 7 mail template has been engineered to provide increased server scalability and reduced CPU usage to help boost performance and response times both on the workstation client and on the server. Performance metrics from the IBM development lab (using NotesBench workloads) and statistics from the Lotus Domino 7 beta program indicate that Lotus Domino 7 can support up to 50 percent more Lotus Domino Web Access users on the same server hardware with up to 20 percent less CPU resources than the Lotus Domino 6.5 server. In addition to the impact of Lotus Domino 7 server performance improvements, Lotus Domino Web Access users have reported improved response times of up to 40 percent with client-side enhancements first implemented in 6.5.4.
New administration and security features
- New security features include support for Secure Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) and the ability to read, encrypt, sign and verify signatures using X.509 certificates.
- New configuration settings available to the administrator include an option to disallow access to mail attachments and the ability to force a user logout when all Lotus Domino Web Access windows are closed. This includes clearing the browser cache and system temporary files directory so that no user data is left behind. This is particularly important when employees use public or shared devices.
- You can change the password for the Lotus Notes ID file that Lotus Domino Web Access software uses for mail encryption, and you have the option to synchronize this password with your Internet password.
- After deleting entries to enforce mail quotas, space is immediately freed up for use by Lotus Domino Web Access.
- Lotus Domino 7 server can be set up to log activity requests from Lotus Domino Web Access, allowing administrators to track usage of Lotus Domino Web Access clients within their infrastructure.
Expanded presence awareness and instant messaging integration
Enhanced presence awareness extends beyond the inbox to calendar, address book and application templates supplied with Lotus Domino, such as the Lotus Notes and Web discussion database. A new default instant contact list manager, based on the IBM Lotus Sametime® Connect browser client, allows you to easily add names to your list and change your availability status using a menu option. You can synchronize contact lists from previous versions of the software, and new configuration options expand administrator control of instant messaging features and settings.
Enhanced user interface
Lotus Domino Web Access 7 offers an enhanced user interface that more closely resembles the look and feel of familiar applications such as IBM WebSphere® Portal and Lotus Notes software. In response to user feedback, presence awareness icons appear next to the names of colleagues, and menus are present in more places on the screen and support cascaded style. A new visual indicator at the top of the screen displays at a glance the percentage of your mail quota you have used.
New mail productivity features
Users of Lotus Domino Web Access 7 can:
- Quickly mark an e-mail message to indicate that further action is warranted
- Easily set up rules to let Lotus Domino Web Access automatically process e-mail that meets specified criteria
- Sort the inbox by subject
- View mail threads from within a message
- Create personalize stationery to use when composing mail
- Easily include attachments in messages
- Forward non-mail objects such as calendar entries and contacts
- Delete a message and continue to the next item in the inbox
In addition, users can take advantage of mail attention indicators if this functionality is enabled for the user's mail file using a Lotus Notes client. Attention indicators are a visual indication of whether you are the only recipient of a message, are one of a few people in the addressee list, or are receiving the message along with many others or by carbon copy only.
New calendar productivity features
- Ability to save an in-process meeting invitation as a draft
- Flexibility to import country-specific corporate holidays
- Administrator-controlled access to attachments, rooms and resources and online meetings (when using Web conferencing integration with a separate license of IBM Lotus Sametime)
Extended support for Linux
Lotus Domino Web Access 7 is the first IBM messaging and collaboration client to run on the Mozilla Foundation Firefox 1.0 Web browser. Support for a Mozilla browser for Linux was first introduced with Lotus Domino Web Access 6.5. With Version 7, your employees can use supported Firefox or Mozilla Web browsers on a Linux desktop to access rich messaging and collaborative functionality. Lotus Domino Web Access software can help you realize the potential cost savings of deploying Linux on both the server and client.
Lotus Domino Web Access 7 software offers enhanced features for supported Linux-based Web browsers. Examples are support for drag-and-drop functionality and off-line scheduled synchronization. And an enhanced user interface for attachments on Linux simulates the list-style interface of Microsoft ActiveX controls.
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Award Winning
Industry experts consistently choose IBM Lotus Notes/Domino over the competition
- Network Computing - 10th Annual Well-Connected Awards - Enterprise Groupware Server (13 May 2004)
Groupware is a vital part of doing business, as collaborative workspaces, group calendars and instant messaging become necessities, not luxuries. And IBM's Lotus Domino 6.5 is our top choice in this growing -- and increasingly competitive -- market because it makes life easier for users and administrators alike. We liked the instant messaging (IM) support within the main Notes client, and Domino's robust Web client gives users access to mail, calendaring and to-do lists from most anywhere. Admins can develop custom applications tailored to business needs. This standards-based application development is also multiplatform, so enterprisewide administration can be accomplished from a single console. Domino suite just keeps getting better with each revision.
- Network Computing Editors Choice Award (1 April 1 2004)
"Domino has the easiest user administration interface, and it includes more built-in functionality than its competitors. Domino's application development is standards-based and multiplatform, and the client software is infinitely configurable"
- PC Magazine - Editor's Choice Award (17 February 2004)
For small and midsize companies looking both for basic e-mail and for group calendaring, the choice comes down to Domino or Exchange. In Domino's favor: better multiplatform support, easier setup, and more features (such as instant messaging) included in the base product. Notes also offers unmatched customizing with a programming language and interface design tool that lets you build collaborative tools, workflows, and databases tailored exactly to your company's needs.
- Linux World - Domino Web Access wins Best In Show (23 January 2004)
Domino Web Access is the latest version of the rich browser mail client for Domino, and the first to support Mozilla on Linux
- InfoWorld - Best Enterprise Collaboration Platform (5 January 2004)
For its "greatly improved interface, both for the Web and stand-alone," Lotus Notes and Domino 6.5 was selected the "Best Enterprise Collaborative Platform"
- ZDNet Australia - Editor's Choice Award (22 August 2003)
IBM's Lotus Domino 6 Enterprise Server and Lotus Notes 6 is an impressive collaboration product that is packed with features
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